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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: I wanted to ask you about President Johnson's role in the campaign. O: There was an uneasy situation
  • of nuclear arms; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the effect of George Wallace's candidacy on both Nixon and Humphrey; voting results in New Jersey and Illinois; the effect of polling and publicizing poll results; poll accuracy; Ohio
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 O: The 1968 tax surcharge battle evolved from the proposal that was made in 1967 by the President. He was anxious to deal
  • in running for president; Bernard Boutin being instructed to keep O'Brien out of involvement in the New Hampshire primary; LBJ's decision to not have a stand-in in the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien's February 1968 memo updating information on primaries
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the Empire Ordnance investigation, which had a life of its own, a long story of its own, and we ultimately had to present that to the grand jury in New York. I was pulled back out of the army; I had gotten into the army by that time. We had submitted
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Sometimes he would rehearse those kinds of things, and I got in on it, but not this kind. He considered those more extemporaneous types of talks. (Interruption) We were traveling from Stewart Air Force Base in New York over to Ellenville, New York
  • other countries; LBJ speaking Spanish; Glassboro, New Jersey, meeting with Kosygin; trip around the US to visit military troops; communication problems aboard the USS Enterprise; LBJ’s response to a Williamsburg, Virginia, minister’s anti-war statements.
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the civil rights plank that we tried to incorporate. Humphrey had made the speech in Philadelphia when Truman [was nominated] in 1948, I guess it would be. F: Right. S: This was 1956. We're now with the next big push on that sort of thing, voting rights
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • had run against him and almost beat him. That's when the people--I believe it was the drug people from Philadelphia [who] were sending all the money in here trying to beat Mr. Rayburn. They employed "Chink" Smith, Garland Smith, and put an awful lot
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recall. He started talking to me about how he had made speeches in New York and Philadelphia and others areas of the country outside the South and what fine receptions he had had and so on. I knew of course that the Majority Leader of the United
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for not electing Hodges as chairman of the delegation--he had joined in in the Philadelphia convention of not electing the outgoing governor who was Kerr Scott. They did it to embarrass Kerr Scott, and it was the first time that the outgoing governor had not been
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --what's his name? Anyhow, they swept into the meeting and sat down and surveyed what was going on. Hobart started talking about needing to get approval of some new forms from the Bureau of the Budget in order to do some studies. So Bobby said, "Who are you
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • this pretty often? I don't know. I think he watched programs like "Issues and Answers 11 and "Meet the Press" and news type programs, the Sunday programs a 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: There was additional evidence concerning ITT that underscored the existing concern during the period when
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to contract with a New York company, and they provided us with a great number of teleprompters. Now, these were heavy, very heavy things to haul around. There are generally three things that looked like podiums that sat out in front of him and through a piece
  • to Mexico for LBJ to see a ranch, Las Pampas, he was thinking of buying; LBJ’s growing passion for secrecy; WHCA staff working as farmhands at the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of Secret Service; LBJ’s radio system in Texas; the New York City blackout; gadgets
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • five years in Mexico; therefore I knew the ropes. And therefore very little time was spent in trying to acclimate me to my new assignment. So most of it had to be by digging on my own, and that's about the extent of it. F: They just really turned you
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to that point, and he took a picture of the two of us shaking hands. The next day it was on the front page of the New York Times; it was the entire front section of the New York Daily News, it was a picture that went around the world. When the editors
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with the Daily News editorial staff to tell them his aspirations for the City Council. And the News--nobody had this story about his being withdrawn but the Post, and until the Post said it, of course everybody I guess was trying to investigate it. So he told
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • to go to the urban centers, and they were not equipped to earn a living in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, you name it. And they became recipients of the welfare system. Therefore because of this mobility of the American population
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • brief and yet curiously intense.I was marched across the well of the Senate by Gerry Siegel during a break in the proceedings and introduced to my new boss, and he said, "Glad to have you, do your best," somewhat abruptly but with full force. B: From
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: We finished last time with a discussion of the Salt Lake City speech which, I believe, was the end
  • of vice-presidential debates; Spiro Agnew's reputation; Wallace's support from organized labor; money to promote voter registration in New York; the campaign status in September 1968; campaign committee meetings; the recording and release of the Salt Lake
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , then, what happened to you after 1946? B: In 1946 I went to Philadelphia with the IRS and in April of 1947 I became associated with this firm. I have been with this firm since April 1, 1947. M: Then you returned to Dallas? B: That's right. M: During
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and to Weslaco for one year . Then I came here in 1935 and got my Ph .D. in 1939 . I stayed one year as an instructor, and then I was offered a job at Bryn Mawr College in suburban Philadelphia . I stayed there thirty years . here in 1970 as chairman
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • it and he would forget he had asked and so i·t wouldn't ~ome up again. But also, after a reasonably short period, he had me start monitoring the I evening news shows and those memorandums that you saw were the daily product of those. I couldn't tell you
  • Daily summaries of TV networks to LBJ; Bureau Chiefs set up TV control room at White House; Bill Moyers and Peter Benchley leaving the White House; Jack Valenti; monitored 11:00 to 1:00pm TV news shows for LBJ; LBJ believed Texans were resented
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Pollak -- IV -- 4 home rule, or did you just assume that that was impossible to begin with and start in on what became the new form of government? P: Yes. The home rule bill had been defeated in 1966. When I got to the White House, Horsky was at work
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and which he held, as Hubert knew, adamantly. You didn't get the feeling that he was willing to rethink or negotiate. In negotiations of this sort one generally tries to find a new way to say something close to the disputed language that brings the parties
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and, of course, the great many foreign heads of state and heads~of government coming to the funeral. Of course, a situation like that, as far as the daily operation of the office is concerned, is not as drastic from a standpoint of our operating groups
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things he did was to send Dale out to buy a new herd bull, because they 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Some general items early in your tenure [as postmaster general]: first, one question regarding your
  • under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Department of Commerce, revised in the White House before going down, of course, and we took this to be the general intentions of the President in regard to this new organization. M: Where did the inititative for the reorganization originate? W: It's hard
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • graduated in '32, I took permanent work with the Forest Service. I worked for about 9 years in Arizona and New Mexico, Flagstaff and in Tucson, still in range experimental work and with a few details to Washington. Then I was transferred in '39
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Symposium. As you said, it stems from a magazine that you were responsible for producing in New York many years ago. I am one of your fans who was there at the time. I was a young man in New York, and I remember quite well what a celebrity you were, and how
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Larry, we haven't in previous interviews said much on the personal side. We've been strictly programmatic, you might
  • White House staff deciding what to do after LBJ's presidency; LBJ asking Levinson to move to Texas rather than work for Gulf and Western; LBJ's expectation of long-term loyalty; final Cabinet meeting; Levinson's decision to move to New York; where